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One of the strongest style in the amateur circuit (the only style which I know has beaten semipro players) is the Cpen LP/inverted twiddling. There's 2 modes to this: 1) LP on FH + TPB, inverted RPB. Best for defence, moving opponents around, serve receive and other LP disgusting shenanigans +...

The short ones you need to step in with the right foot and then rotate the body clockwise through the ball to kill them. Without the body rotation i find it super difficult to do it. It might also be easier to mentally treat half long and short ones as 'chiquita' balls rather than full on BH...

Yes but there's a lot of people who never hold chopsticks properly xD

But you see that approach also leads to some people playing for 30 years without getting the 'right' feeling and never getting a good reliable loop against underspin. This is why, being able to describe it precisely can help save some people from that.

No, literally ask him to serve a long underspin and you can do this. If you serve then you also need to recover properly and that overcomplicates things. Multiball feeding by a partner is even better if you can buy a box of balls and a ball picker. It is literally the fastest way to improve.

Yes i can tell precisely from the video you shared. If you go through the Ti Long video (esp the latter half where he talks about contact), and do the basic practice of using hand/arm only to topspin a heavy underspin ball). Once you figure out how to do it with ease and it is well practiced...

Honestly im willing to bet that currently, against a reasonably heavy underspin ball, @Archosaurus cant actually topspin the ball with the hand only (no body use) with decent spin. Until this can be done at 90+% accuracy, any talk about body usage or stroke trajectory is incredibly premature...

@Archosaurus the main issue is that you are always trying a brute force overly tangential brush and there is not enough normal force to engage the sponge. These are stuff that is quite obvious when you look at video but if you take out just screenshots you wouldnt know. The more you try to brute...

Gotta be careful with the wrist and take it easy. You've already improved so much in such a short span. When i last injured it it was horrible to deal with and i had to rehab for a really long time. With FH i also changed my brushing method to almost pure forearm pronation + using my 2nd...

I went through this and basically got the conclusion that only finger assisted pronation and supination were fundamentally safe and comfortable, and anyway produced the most racket head speed and spin. Wrist movements like ulnar/radial deviation and esp flexion/extension can be a lot more...

Yeah i dont like using BH loop receive against reverse spin either because of the same reasons... way easier to take it with the FH loop if it drifts long (even pivoting if necessary), the margin of error is much higher + you are not fighting the sidespin but rather riding it. Also can be a much...

Yep, usually the sequence is LP swipe to wide FH, i loop it back to them and they somehow chopblock it back to my wide BH and then they can just twiddle back to inverted to attack whatever (either push or weak loop). But, if you dont give them a short ish backspin ball to do this nasty swipe you...

Even with the forward lean which is definitely an important adjustment, i have the feeling you are trying to do too much (ie too big of a movement) with the BH on the serve receive or against deep fast pushes. Sometimes literally what is needed against these quick jamming pushes or serves is a...

Not sure about that but it's mostly because no one really cares about these stuff over here in Aus so probably the data points are not sufficient. It is mostly over in this forum that a lot of people get combative about USATT ratings and stuff.

Basically the RC system is completely whacked in Australia and is quite erratic imo. But just for comparison, there was a Chinese active provincial player who moved here and only got to RC 1800-1900. And these guys are usually at least USATT 2400 roughly. So the 500 difference does make some...

Yes, it is more of a mindset change rather than a technical change. There is no '1 stroke for everything' in table tennis, you gotta respect the variation in every incoming ball in TT. The advanced players don't have a shot that deals with everything, but rather they are watching the ball like a...

It's not so much about the general technique but the concept in TT which is important. Your stroke is not bad at all as I mentioned, it is mostly the understanding that is a bit problematic. I see even from your reply that you're not really respecting the variation in the spin in your...

Actually this looks pretty good already, you just gotta be aware of a few issues. 1) In general you have only 2 ways to deal with backspin, ie go all out and brute force brush the ball powerfully, or do a weak open blade angle lift. First option has too many mistakes while second option gets...

The sport has evolved so much!

Nah, mostly technique. The higher level players recover faster because every movement is done using their core muscles and lower body with good centre of gravity management. you can actually test it - see if you can do FH loop at frequencies of more than 90 times / minute. The faster the...